84 FALCON. 



inorous bird ; the young in the nest were three in number, and the 

 male fed them for a week or ten days after the female was killed. 



Tlie Peregrine Falcon is fovmd in Georgia, in America, where 

 it is called Spotted Cinereous Hawk. Mr. Abbot observes, that it is 

 brown the first year, and sometimes brown mixed, but does not 

 gain the dark plumage till the following season ; hence it seems 

 to be an inhabitant of America throughout ; but it is observed tliere, 

 to exceed that of Europe in size. 



Said not to be unfrequent in India, about Bengal. 



29.— LANNER FALCON. 



Falco lanavlus, Tnd. Oni. i, 38. Lin. i. 129. Famt. Suec. No. 62. Gm. Lin. i. 276. 



Rail p. 15. Will. p. 48. Bris. i. 363. Id. 8vo. i. 105. Klein, 48. Brun. 



No. 1.2? Muller, 'No. 67 Bechst. DetUsch, ii. s. 296. Gerin. \. t. 2Q } Daud. 



ii, 101. Shaw's Zool. vii. 130. 

 Le Lanier, Buf. i. 243. 

 Lanner, Gen. Syn. i. 86. Id. Sup. 21. Br. Zool. i. t. 23. Id. ed. 1812, p. 223, pi. 23. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 225. Will. Engl. 82. Alhin. ii, pi. 7. Beivick, i. p. 32. Wakot, 



i. pi. 16. Orn. Diet. <Sf Sup. 



LESS than a Buzzard ; bill and cere blue ; irides yellow ; 

 plumage above brown, the feathers edged with paler brown ; 

 crown of tlie head brown and clay colour ; over each eye to the 

 hindhead a broad white Hue ; beneath it a black mark, pointing 

 downwards ; throat white ; breast tinged with dull yellow, marked 

 with brown spots, passing downwards ; thighs and vent the same ; 

 quills dusky, with oval ferruginous spots on the inner webs ; legs 

 short, strong, and bluish. 



This is now and then met with in England, but said to breed 

 in Ireland, not uncommon in the northern parts of Europe; inhabits 



